John Sarbanes: “You can send a signal right now, Chairman Kiko, to the employees of FLRA that you value their opinions so much that you…”

It's a national environmental treasure. It's a regional economic engine. It's been one of my top priorities since I've come to Congress.

The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards.

It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.

They want to be on the field of their democracy. They want to feel like they have some power within their own democracy.